EP 85: Gone to the Dogs in West Virginia

In this episode Steve visits with a fellow West Virginia coon hunter.  The conversation looks hard at an equally hard and unforgiving area of the country in which to hunt raccoons, the same type of area that Steve experienced growing up and in the years prior to his coonhound registry career.  Guest Josh Muncy lives in Kermit, on the West Virginia side of the Tug River that separates the Mountain State from Kentucky, a land famous for the nation’s most-publicized feud and believed to harbor more raccoon hunters than raccoons.  Muncy is gaining a considerable following for his Muncy Outdoors YouTube channel where he and his sons record their hunts for the family archives and in the process are now garnering an impressive number of viewers.  Steve breaks down Muncy’s background, his affinity for pleasure coon hunting despite the adversity presented by harsh terrain and sparse raccoon populations, and the boys talk about favorite hounds and hunts gone by in those Appalachian hills.  Steve opens the episode with a recap of his recent trip to the mountains and reveals many of the memories the trip invoked at each turn in the area’s ever-winding roads.  This is a feel-good episode that exposes the cusp of Fielder’s podcasting effort; taking up-close and personal looks at the personalities that form, in his mind, the true foundation of the sport.

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